Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I ♦ HcCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, December 16, 1937 iU- HcCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEX, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. JMTBSCKIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 lit* Months .75 Three Months .50 Contributions To The Unemploymen t ( Com pensation Fund Sho^v Increase ]d!lr Ck Chevr °lets lo„ A±j> | tesdpnces W 4/ri * . • , *ESULT: Columbia, Dec. 11.—Contributions from South Carolina employers to the unemployment compensation fund amounted to $274,966 in No vember, an increase of 13.38 per cent over the total for the previous month, R. Brice Waters, adminis trator for the state unemployment vompensation commission, an nounced today. The taxes, or contributions as they are generally termed, will go toward paying benefits to unem ployed persons in this state who qualify for payments after July 1," 1938. Mr. Waters explained that No vember collections boosted to $3,- *93,100 total revenue received by the commission since July 1, 1936, when contributions first began ac cruing under an act passed by the legislature establishing the unem ployment compensation system in this state. Of the total collections, $3,750,000 have already been trans ferred to the unemployment trust XUnd in Washington. The remain der of the collections are on de posit in the state treasury and will ie transferred in due course. ■rW: mm$ CITATION OF LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. By J. Frank Mattison, Probate Judge: WHEREAS, Elizabeth W. Wise made suit to me to grant her Let ters of Administration of the Estate and effects of F. A. Wise; THESE ARE THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said F. A. Wise, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at McCormick, S. C., on 21st day of December, 1937, Next, after publi cation hereof, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have why the said Adminis tration should not be granted. GIVEN under my hand, this 7th Say of December Anno Domini 3B7. J. FRANK MATTISON, Probate Judge. Insurance *Oft Matter Da Luxe model* only. CHEVROLET MOTOR DIVISION General Moiort Salts Corporation, DETROIT, MICH1GAi<i McGrath motor go McCORMICK, S. C JESTER’S CASH MARKET Phone No. 25 We Deliver Main Street McCormick, S. C. When you are in town be sure and come by our market and let us suggest your meat needs for you. We w r ill give you your choice of meats. Prices are Reasonable, Meats the Best. We carry a full line of Fresh Meats at all times and are always ready to be at your service. Fresh Fish and Norfolk Oysters, Thursday, Fri day and Saturday. We highly appreciate your patronage. Before selling your cattle and hogs, see us. We pay the market price for them. We have reduced prices on pork and are offering it at the following prices: SPECIAL Pure Pork Sausage 20c Pork Chops 20c Pork Roast 20c Pork Ham 25c Pork Ribs 20c We grind sausage for the public. u$ GIVE AN sir, There's an Ingersoll for every member of the family — watches for pocket, wrist or handbag at prices from $1.25. You can buy them at stores right here in town. il 12 ID Jfl R:ST~A*CH—$3.95 YANKEE — $1.50 Fire Insurance And All Other Kinds of Insurance Ex cept Life. HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMICK. ,S. C. COAL I am now ready to fill your or ders for High Grade Domestic Coal. Phone 82R, or see me. G. J. SANDERS. Sr., McCormick, S. C. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Eyes Examined Spectacles And Eye Glasses Professionally Fitted. 956 Broad Street Augusta. Oa ' WANT ADV. LOST—Lady’s pocket book con taining yellow gold band ring and bracelet, small change, papers, etc Reward. Mrs. J. B. Walker, R. 1, McCormick, S. C. MAN WANTED to supply Raw- Jeigh’s Household Products to con sumers. Sales way up this year. We train and help you. Good profits for hustlers. No experience necessary. Pleasant, profitable, dig nified work. Write today. Raw- T -*eh’s, D^pt. SCI.-77-53. Richmond. Are The Cotton Mills Worth Keeping? Sometimes our blessings seem so commonplace, and are so close to us, that we take them for granted and do not adequately evaluate them. The cotton textile mills in South Carolina, f or instance, have for years berti an integral part of our life, at our very elbows wdierever we turn. We have become so accustomed to them that v/e actually look upon them as our just due. our very own, like the climate and like the many publig facilities which we jointly own and enjoy. In reality, however, the cotton textile mills are not public institutions at all. They are privately owned corporations, though actually they produce benefits which are publicly enjoyed. Together our cotton mills supply a very large proportion of the man-made assets which the state affords. So many are the advantages which we as citizens derive from this industry, that hardly a man, woman or child can be found in the state who has not benefited from the payrolls or the sundry purchases of the mills, or the taxes which they pay. It is suggested that you study the figures below in the light of the benefits which you derive as a citizen, and ask yourself the question, “Are the cotton mills worth keeping?” First, consider the payrolls (wages only) $5 5,498,852.00 in 1936, according to the Depart ment of Labor. Is it worth while to preserve this to supply the trade and income for our mer chants, farmers, educators, hankers, doctors, law vers, ministers, insurance men, and other trade and professional men and women? In the face of the decrease in our agricultural income, what would we do without our industrial payrolls? The bulk of these payrolls are spent right here in our state. Then consider the huge purchases of the mills: 1,155,094 Bales of Cotton in 1936. 774,085,408 K. W. Hours of Electricity in 1936. 597,322 Tons of Coal in 1936. (S. C. Dept, of Labor Report of 1936). And the huge amount of gasoline, oH, cord wood, building materials, freight, express and postal services, and hundreds of other services a nd general equipment and supplies purchased each year by the cotton mills. Together the mills’ purchases run into hundreds of millions of dollars as they buy from individuals and corporations throughout the state. Together they rep resent the state’s largest customer. These expenditures, when added to the millions of dollars of taxes paid by the mills, repre sent a figure spent in South Carolina totaling over $150,000,000.00. This is greater than the value of the state's farm crops, greater than the expenditures for highway purposes, greater than the expenditures of the railroads within the state, th e powder companies or any other single class of industry. It is greater than the total of individual hank deposits within the state, nearly six times greater than the total savings deposits within the state, greater than the total value of the annual products of all other industries in the state, and thirteen times greater than annual public school expenditures in South Carolina. The value to each South Carolina citizen of the annual expenditures of the cotton mills with in the state is apparent. If these advantages are worth keeping, are they worth protecting? The Cotton Manufacturers Association of S. C.